New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-10
NEW YORK CITY,

Several members OF the State Charities Aid Asso-
citation and the Charity Organization Society asked
tho Mayor yesterday to have the act enforced which
was passed by the last legislature providing for trc
control and direction Of the Commissioners OF Char
tics and Correction. For this purpose The sum OF
$4,000 was authorized to be raised
Eugene Kelly has contributed 800 to tie fund in
aid Of the wife and family of The late John BreSln
An armed organization known the Irish Vol
unicers has Just been started. There are already
over eighty members enlisted. They drill once a
week al Fifty fourh-st and second ave. and they
are an oshOOt of the section of Ia" Fcnian Brother
"nevcr lay down arms until ireland Is free IL Is
thought their shoulders Will be sore
.chn y. Outwaer, the we'll known accountant, AMI
staff of Clerks have finished examining the books OF
the Staten Island Ferry Company, and have turned
the report over to lie Commissioners Of Accounts
The examination of the officers and employees 81 ;hc
company WIZ lie lcgun by the commissioners oil Ac-
counts during the coming week.
The next lecture in. the Cooper Union free saturday
night will he delivered this evening by Clarence
ruLen. OF Boston. on Apache Land and the Apache
Indians" with stIcOptiCOE illustrations
W r. iioinaday's remarkable little pamphlet on
" Free Rum on the Congo" winch has been noticed
in TIE TRIBu ~ be bought At NJ. - Di'lc House
for 25 cents. The proceeds Will he used TO al lhe
work of the WOman's National Christian Temper ahco
Union.
The panorama of the Merrimac and Monitor naval
battle Will close In two weeks.
The Anchor Line steamer Msatia, from Mcditer-
rancan ports. detailed at Quarm Inc by Health
Officer Smith yesterday, because OF measles on bodiu
memorial on the death of Ascrnon S. Sullivan
was unanimously adopted by the New York Mer-
camille Exchange yesterday.
The cases against the Consolidated and Equitable
Gas Light Companies were called again YESTERDAY be-
fore Recorder Sn,yth Henry II. Anderson appeared
for the Consolidated Company. and john y. Lewis for
the Equitable Company Mr. Lewis lnclF0>cd
demurrer on the ground that preliminary hearing
should have been granted 10 the corporation Tho
were sct down for December ~
DR. Chailc, I. Meyer, OF No. 35l West Finic'h--t.,
who was convicted OF criminal malpractice in the case
OF Mrs Mary A. Martin Of Elizabeth, y. J. wa ar
rested yesterday a bench warrant, the Court Of
Appeal, having confirmed tne conviction y he Wa,
would run away. lIc vii have To spend two year.
and six months I'm prison.
The sophomore cla-- Of the school Of Arts Of col
umbia College. have selected their motto two Greek
words which mean Leading I'm all thing" {. I. H.
Rowe. W. b. Southland and W. Chcync wcro appointed
a committee TO confer with the oltr ca--r' ~ ~"
college, and with the faculty, concerning ID" advi>a
biltv Of establishing a senate at Column 4, which
shall a, a mediator between The faculty aud
students.
seba,tion Mar Lang. a German Trainer, age thirty
four, while at work yesterday on new building In
Eighty-sixth,t. near Fourth ave fcll h9n nc TOP
the cellar and had his skull fractured lie died
after at the Ninety ninth street Hospital.
The Old Guard Veteran Battalion has elected the
vi president Waiter X. Pave. treasurer. Henry l.
Fars secretary r.. y. Moore. historian. Charles \
Pevorely The annual ball VIII take place ON Jan
nary Il.
An Indictment charging benjamin Kahn with two
companions known The Doctor and "Ja1ray"
or tho oregon Jew" with grand larceny called In
the General Sessions yesterday Kahn pleaded not
guilty. The other have not been arrested
The charge made f. that the men sWindcd Henry
Aller- butcher, Of 1920 ~ whai Is known a.
the gold brlCk' s&inGlc
The sale Of the DlluyvcWcr collection Of painting
at Moorc'- Auction Galleries closed yesterday after
noon elxiy-"ght painting sold at ~ ag,rc-
gate Of = -i3. Tho lat picture on the catalogue. a
Characteristic DC Haas, on the Moore brought
$500 the hi CHEST price realized during the entire sale
The man who committed suicide at the Van Dyke
House in the Jowery Wednesday night, wa idcni
fed yc-'ciday morning AZ The morguc a. william
soh.t Of IIuhokcn. SOh- wa a salesman and hVcd
with his family at Eleventh andd Bloomfield So,
HObOken.
gentleman. ven known Tor hls patronage On
American art. and Mr. Frank Leslie. who f. also
deeply Interested In the growth Of art In this country,
have each announced their intention Of giving pre-
Of 1900 annually for The picture Of the greatest mri
by an American artist I'm the exhibition % The Amcl
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